Don

Quick meaning: Don is a noun meaning (UK) A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.

Meaning

(UK) A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.

More Meanings

1. (Canada) An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents.
2. A mafia boss, primarily for Italian or Italian American bosses.
3. A (usually Spanish or Italian) title of respect to a man, especially a lord or nobleman.
4. (MLE) Any man, bloke, dude.
5. (transitive) To put on clothing; to dress (oneself) in an article of personal attire.

Example Sentences

To don one's clothes.

I’m confused like who’s this don .22 bells and that who’s on

No one feeds at the high table except the dons and the gentlemen-commoners, who are undergraduates in velvet caps and silk gowns[.]

Wo often of an evening go and hear the band in the square opposite the captin-giniral’s palace—it is here were the dons and donnas and all the fashionables assemble, and I must say it’s amusing.

Word Forms

• dons
• donning
• donned

Synonyms for don

Depending on context, synonyms include donny, put on, clothe, dight, enrobe, accouter.

Antonyms for don

Common opposites include doff.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include preceptor, assume, wear, put on, charity, endowment.

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